You might think that buying and using a hard drive is a simple matter of picking one from a catalog and connecting it inside a computer. That may be true fro the simplest of desktops but when you ...

Recently a number of the companies that produce hard drives have begun shipping models that use SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording) technology rather than CMR (Conventional Magnetic Recording). And some ...

20TB Ultrastar® DC HC650 SMR HDDs and 18TB Ultrastar DC HC550 CMR HDDs are now sampling with a dozen enterprise OEMs and hyperscale cloud customers worldwide, including Dropbox. The new Ultrastar HDDs ...

Western Digital, one of the biggest names in the data storage industry, got dragged into a rather complicated controversy regarding hard disk technology and marketing. That drama also dragged others ...

A Spinning Potato: It's 2024, and hardware manufacturers are still competing to see who can produce the highest-capacity hard disk drives on the market. Seagate recently introduced its HAMR-powered ...

The hard disk drive industry is gearing its products to meet the needs of high-capacity low-cost storage for enterprise and data center applications as well as some video surveillance applications.

The big picture: Although consumers have largely transitioned to fast and durable solid-state drives, data centers and other sectors requiring mass storage still rely on disk drives. Competitors ...